As far as major outages, I can only think of around 10 going back 5 years. Sure there have been minor hiccups and glitches, but gosh, that’s life on the internet.
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iii@mander.xyz 7 months ago
Is there any meta analysis on these major outages?
They seem to be occuring more and more regularly.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 months ago pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
It does feel like the major outages are growing closer together.
I want to blame plugging AI where it doesn’t belong, but I suppose that putting everything into the same couple of server closets could be the primary root cause.
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Yeah I have issues with my home setup at least that often. I can only think of two occasions where the solution took more effort than a reboot. Maybe we’re all just old enough for “every 6 months” to feel like every 5 mins
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I screw up my own system way more often than that lol
Same! But the ones I cause don’t count.
- irmadlad@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I don’t know how old you are brother, but it feels like I’m in one of those Star Trek warps where all the stars are just whizzing by.
southernbeaver@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
It would be funny if it was because of some AI coding
It is. Sometimes the big secret turns out to just be what we all thought was happening.
Subscript5676@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Please don’t remind me. Had a colleague with a senior title who just vibecoded on our CI pipeline and it ended up blocking deployments for half a day.
30p87@feddit.org 7 months ago
Maybe Kevin Fang will make a video about all combined?
My prejudice tells me that it’s vibe slopped code.
UsedLinuxDealer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I saw people speculating about this, but it’ll be interesting to see if that’s really what it was (and if so, if they’d admit it).
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
I’m sure it was, and I’m sure they will not admit it.
So I’ll throw this into the “conspiracy theory, but probably true” pile; and I’ll try to remember to check snopes.com in 20 years to see if I was somehow wrong.
“Did Vibe coding really routinely break half the Internet is the 2020s?” …assuming the Internet and I are still both around by then…
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Preliminary articles say this was a DDoS.
Based on what facts?
frongt@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
A statement from cloudflare blamed “a spike in unusual traffic”, but I guess the actual cause of the outage was a config file generated in response exceeded the max size
cnbc.com/…/cloudflare-down-outage-traffic-spike-x…
Technically a DoS, but not in the most common sense
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
So it was automation, but that automation might have been stupid the normal computer way, rather than the new LLM enhanced computer way.
Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
A DDoS that brings down the biggest(?) DDoS protection provider?
def possible, cloudflare DDoS their own dashboard a few months ago with some react code
blog.cloudflare.com/deep-dive-into-cloudflares-se…